Harvey (1951)

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AFI's 10 Top 10: Fantasy
by ShaunHuston in ShaunHuston filmblog

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"As with Moonstruck's appearance on the romantic comedy list, I found myself charmed by many of the selections on the fantasy list, even where I may not have made the choice myself. I was particularly happy to see Groundhog Day (1993) on this Top 10, but, like a number of other films here, the more I thought about the idea of “fantasy”, the more I began to wonder if some weren't misplaced or mis-categorized. Groundhog Day, alongside Harvey (1950), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), may be fantasies, but they are more accurately described as “fables”, that is, as stories that are essentially about life lessons rather than the fantastic, though they may use fantasy elements to tell their stories. Where the three older films are concerned, there are questions that clearly can, and are, raised about what the protagonists have experienced or who they actually are. Is George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) actually v " [More]

Harvey
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"The salient trouble with Elwood Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) is that he sees and talks to Harvey, a 6 foot 3-and-a-half inch rabbit. When Elwood’s long-suffering sister (Josephine Hull, who won an Academy Award for her supporting role in Harvey, 1950) tries to get him committed to a mental institution, chaos ensues. Yes, the movie is funny. But I’ll remember it for the wonderful character of Elwood Dowd. He’s not delusional, although no one else—well, almost no one else—can see the rabbit. He’s not a ne’er-do-well even though he has no job. As he describes his life to a psychiatrist, he goes to the bar, buys some deserving people some drinks, they tell him their momentous stories (“because nothing trivial even goes into a bar”), they become friends, and, as life would have it, he rarely sees them again. It’s touches like the last that make Elwood a complex and " [More]

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